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Craig W. Beebe * Torry Brouillard-Bruce * Carolyn Golz * Stephen K. Harrison * Shigeo J. Iwamiya

COMPETENCY MOVEMENT
IN STUDENT AFFAIRS
More than 25 years ago, Bloland (1992) observed that student affairs professionals had
struggled for decades to answer the question, "Are we a profession?" (p. 2). Bloland's
answer was a resounding "No." As the basis
for Bloland's assertion, Wrenn and Darley
(1949) suggested eight standards that established the boundary beyond which a field
of work may call itself a profession. Among
them are the implementation of standardized
selection and training processes, the presence
of a specialized base of knowledge and skills,
and the use of self-imposed performance
standards. Despite a growing interest in
student affairs professional competencies in
the empirical literature, little standardization
existed in the field concerning the minimum
standards governing selection for a student
affairs role or the specific skills or knowledge
upon which training ought to be based.
Bloland (1992) attributed these problems
to the immense diversity in roles played by

Problematically, housing is
perhaps the largest recruiter
of entry-level staff within
student affairs, yet the field
offers few opportunities for
advancement to mid- and
senior-level positions .

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professionals operating under the student
affairs umbrella:
While it may appear that the field could
become a profession simply by exerting
a special effort to develop programs and
standards which would fulfill the accepted
criteria for a profession, the field is far too
loosely defined and variegated for it to
qualify as a whole. (p. 3)
Bloland recognized a problem that continues
to challenge student affairs professionals today.
In a field so operationally diverse that it evades
consideration as a profession as a whole, it is
difficult to identify a slate of competencies to
which all its members should aspire.
Bloland's (1992) perspective was well
founded, having been approached more than
half a century prior in a foundational student
affairs document. In perhaps the first consideration of the competencies required of
student affairs administrators, The Student Personnel Point of View (SPPV) (American Council
on Education, 1937) called for the development
of more formal national networks to assist
student affairs professionals in achieving the
developmental goals required of the growing
field. The SPPV proposed a detailed study
of the functional areas outlined in the document to be built around a checklist that would
provide clarity about the necessary functions
and skills of student personnel administrators.
Further, the report's authors recommended
that this survey should inform a series of handbooks that would outline the role-specific responsibilities of administrators within various
functional areas of student affairs (American
Council on Education, 1937).

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